Posted
by
Soulskillon Friday April 25, 2008 @12:09AM
from the search-no-evil-browse-no-evil-blog-no-evil dept.

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points out a story about the Russian government's interest in expanding anti-extremism laws to include the blocking of websites and ISPs. The laws would match those already in use for the country's print media. Russian internet users may soon be forced to deal with the same issues facing Chinese citizens. Quoting:
"An official at the Russian prosecutor's general office, Vyacheslav Sizov, told the Russian-language newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that any web site that is determined to host what he terms 'extremist material' would be blocked from being accessible from within the Russian Federation. Given the Putin government's history with the media, 'extremist material' may be very broadly interpreted as any content unfriendly to the interests of the Russian government."

Wasn't there a US company, Williams Energy, Inc. that was planning to do something like this - run internet cabling through its gas pipes in the US. They weren't planning to be last mile providers, tho.